The International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) won a $30,000 grant award, given by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), to develop method estimate harms and benefits that gun policy violence prevention interventions have legal users of firearms.

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This paper describes the various software modules of the International Collaborative Environment (ICE), a system implemented as a collection of components written in Java. The system allows groups to collaborate, both synchronously and asynchronously, and perform a variety of tasks over the Internet. The components, all of which are shared by users in the same group, include chat, whiteboard, e...

In the emerging Web of Data, publishing stable and unique identifiers promises great potential in using the web as common platform to discover and enrich data in the ecologic sciences. With our collaborative e-Science platform “BEFdata”, we generated and published unique identifiers for the data repository of the Biodiversity – Ecosystem Functioning Research Unit of the German Research Foundati...